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On Mon, 11 Jan 16 22:53:29 UTC Hypnos The Blade (46) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Absolute practicality in living and planning everything more than a few days ahead.
Where would you like to live?
In a world where rewards and success came to those deserving rather than the lucky.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
To be able to afford all earthly pursuits, challenges and delights for oneself, loved ones and others.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Secrecy & Lust
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Those who are guided by chiefly by love and justice, but with a lethality towards the evil and corrupt.
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Ramses The Great, Jesus, Nikola Tesla, Nat Turner, St. Ignatius Loyola, Rumi, DaVinci, Confucius
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
My mother, my sisters, my wife, women of strength and intellect who embrace their femininity and openly admire admirable men.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Tauriel from "The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug",Those who are more than women without ceasing to be womanly
Your favorite painter?
Waterhouse
Your favorite musician?
Peter Murphy
The quality you most admire in a man?
Intelligence, sense of humor, patience & generosity of spirit
The quality you most admire in a woman?
intelligence, sense of humor, patience, generosity of spirit, physical and spiritual beauty, naughtiness, flirtatiousness
Your favorite virtue?
generousity
Your favorite occupation?
Creating, composing, problem-solving, writing
Who would you have liked to be?
Filthy rich.
Your most marked characteristic?
A desire for people to enjoy themselves in my company, and to be a catalyst for inspiration.
What do you most value in your friends?
Playful, patient, compassionate personal character and a sharp but benevolent intellect
What is your principle defect?
Avoidance of unpleasant realities and endeavors.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
to never have fully realized my great potential, never to have loved or been loved, never to have had secret and joyful scandals.
What would you like to be?
Myself--but with fanancial wealth enough to turn ideas, inventions and whims into reality.
What is your favorite color?
Crimson
What is your favorite flower?
Buddleia Davidii
What is your favorite bird?
The Hummingbird
Who are your favorite prose writers?
Piers Anthony, JRR Tolkien
Who are your favorite poets?
Robert Herrick, Rumi, Walt Whitman, Percy Bysshe Shelley
Who are your heroes in real life?
My mother, my brothers and sisters, myself.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Harriet Tubman, Marie Curie, Camille Claudel
What are your favorite names?
Mohini, Ramses, Ligeia, Devavani, Angel, Sithriel, Joseph, Nyx
What is it you most dislike?
Debilitating illnesses that accompany aging
What historical figures do you most despise?
Hitler, Netanyahu, Christopher Columbus, all slaveholders & Confederates, The ancient Pharisees and Sadducees, George Bush & Dick Cheney
What event in military history do you most admire?
The 300 Spartans fighting The Persians, President Obama disarming Iran without a single shot fired.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Will power and incomparable charisma
How would you like to die?
By force of will, centuries hence, in impeccable health, much beloved.
What is your present state of mind?
Anxious about lunch and the end of an immensely boring and confining workday, hopeful that life conditions will improve
What is your motto?
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams

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